SoCali is ~1/4 Hispanic, so tamales are common. You can even get gourmet tamales, vegetarian tamales, and fusion-ethnic tamales.

Actually, all foods here are apt to be adapted into some fusion whatever. Everyone eats everyone else's ethnic food -- which makes food the great equalizer
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